Will typescript-go support importing .ts extensions?

[alexgleason]

Will TypeScript 7 support modern path-resolution like Vite, esbuild, etc?

There's a tc39 proposal for browsers to support type stripping, so that TypeScript files could be imported and run directly in the browser.

It raises the question of what a TypeScript source file "should" look like. TypeScript is an idealized form of JavaScript, with the role of tsc being to transform the idealized form into the compatible form.

The world has overwhelmingly chosen .ts imports. It would be a huge win if typescript 7 could eclipse bundlers.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I know that TypeScript 5.7 introduced the rewriteRelativeImportExtensions option, but it is an incomplete imlementation that doesn't support path aliases like @/utils/example.ts

[RyanCavanaugh]

TS7 will have the same module primitives (minus deprecated ones) as TS 5.9/6.0

What you're describing is already broadly possible with allowImportingTsExtensions. Path rewriting of path mapping is not a planned new feature, and is unlikely to be implemented -- TypeScript's goal is to check types, not bundle files, so supplanting bundlers is out of scope for the project.

[alexgleason]

Thank you for the response.

The way I see it, there are 2 different variants of TypeScript. When people use bundlers, they think they're using TypeScript but they're actually not...

I don't get not wanting to address this. If bundlers are required to use TypeScript the way the world wants to use it, I would consider removing the "emit" functionality of TypeScript.

[RyanCavanaugh]

You can use a bundler or not use a bundler with TypeScript. Plenty of people do both.

There are many moving parts in the dev ecosystem -- typechecking, bundling, dev servers, hot module reloads, culling unused styles, accessibility checking, A/B testing, metrics, GDPR compliance, routing, and so on.

TypeScript doesn't need to be an omni-tool that does all of these. Bundlers do an extremely good job of what they need to do, the same can be said of many other things too. Defining the project scope in terms of focusing on one important thing seems to make a lot of sense to me.